expurgation

as inpurge
as inpurification
as indefecation
as incatharsis
as inlustration

Synonyms for expurgation

noun elimination, removal

Antonyms for expurgation

Word Origin & History

early 15c., "a cleansing from impurity," from Latin expurgationem (nominative expurgatio), noun of action from past participle stem of expurgare "to cleanse out, purge, purify," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + purgare "to purge" (see purge). Sense of "remove objectionable passages from a literary work" first recorded in English 1610s.

Example Sentences for expurgation

That which seems to me much the most probable is the theory of Expurgation.

In the meeting which followed the expurgation of the resolutions, the organizers of the movement lost control.

Much of this theory of expurgation of the Iliad and Odyssey seems to me to rest on the assumption of .

"The spirit that hated cruelty" has left the facts where it found them; there is no expurgation of them.

It does not appear to me that this theory of expurgation, all important as it is, can be easily understood.

A great number of States have expressly instructed their senators to vote for this expurgation.

Hence the expurgation of masterpieces that an artist might appear as commonplace a bourgeois as his commentator.

When books were delivered to the tribunals for expurgation, the habitual delays must have been exasperating.

In the very act of expurgation it lives; for what is taken from one page is placed on another.

I do not assume to say that the question of this expurgation was a leading, or a controlling point in the issue of this election.

expurgation

Synonyms for expurgation

Antonyms for expurgation

More words related to expurgation

catharsis

defecation

lustration

purge

purification